Metrics and visualizations available for CloudWatch

Line chart Display metrics from AWS CloudWatch namespaces such as EC2, RDS, ELB and more.

Number Widget Display metrics from AWS CloudWatch namespaces such as EC2, RDS, ELB and more.

Create a new Amazon CloudWatch widget

Click Add widget, located in the top right of your dashboard.

Search for Amazon CloudWatch using the Search sources field.

Alternatively, you can also scroll down the alphabetical list of integrations until you reach the Amazon CloudWatch integration.

Click on the Amazon CloudWatch integration.

Create a connection with Amazon CloudWatch

When adding your first Amazon CloudWatch widget, you'll be asked to create a connection and authenticate your Amazon CloudWatch account so that we're able to collect your data and display it on the dashboard. You only need to create this connection once – we'll take care of the rest.

Tip

Create a distinct name for your connection, to differentiate it from other accounts later on.

You'll then need to enter your AWS Key and Secret. These are required by Geckoboard to access your Amazon CloudWatch account.

Important note

In line with best practice, we recommend using Amazon's IAM facility to create a separate access key and secret that has read-only permission on your AWS account.

To allow Geckoboard to send requests to the AWS API, please ensure that the IAM user that you have added to Geckoboard has "Action":["cloudwatch:ListMetrics", "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"] in its policy.